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⚖️ Secret coaching ⚖️ To coach secretly 🎸 Intensive practice 🎸 To practice hard
woodshedding

woodshedding

9.9
Secret coaching of a witness to change what they say in court
  • noun
  • /ˈwʊdˌʃɛdɪŋ/
  • Jargon
translation icon : preparación indebida de testigos
  • The lawyer was accused of woodshedding the witness before the trial.

Examples

  • Allegations of woodshedding can undermine the credibility of a court case.

  • Strict rules are in place to prevent woodshedding during legal proceedings.

  • The lawyer was accused of woodshedding the witness before the trial.

  • Is woodshedding common in legal cases?

  • The prosecutor warned that woodshedding a witness could lead to serious legal consequences.

  • Allegations of woodshedding can create doubts about the integrity of the trial.

  • Judges often look for signs of woodshedding when evaluating witness testimonies.

How Secretive

tampering
58 5.8
woodshedding
  • Jargon
9.9

Surface Forms

woodshed singular
woodsheds plural

Morphology

woodshedding = woodshed (semi-transparent) = wood + shed + ing

The morphological formation is regular (wood+shed+ -ing), but the legal sense 'secret or improper coaching of a witness' is a specialized semantic extension of the practice sense and therefore not fully transparent.

Etymology

Woodshedding in law comes from that same idea of taking someone away to a private woodshed to prepare them, so it now means secret or improper coaching of a witness to change or improve their testimony.